1. After WWII
The Cold War

2. Yalta Conference
Met off of Black Sea before end of WWII to discuss outcome
U.S.A (FDR), Soviet Union (Stalin), & Britain (Churchill)
Soviets wanted buffer zone so don’t get invaded (Poland)
Want to weaken Germany (break into 4 parts)
U.S. & Britain don’t agree (start WWIII) but U.S. needs Soviet help with Japan so agree, but Soviets have to give new nations free elections

3. The United Nations
Formed with 51 countries that met in San Francisco to prevent conflict
Based in N.Y. today
Five countries led-U.S.A, Britain, France, U.S.S.R, China

4. Fate of Great Britain Had to pay back Lend Lease fall into depression
Oust Churchill (blame for depression)
P.M. Attlee
Socialist
Can’t afford to keep empire
India independence 1946
Then Burma, Australia, Canada
Does not want atomic bomb

5. Arab-Israeli Conflict
U.N. sectioned off to make two countries to create a Jewish homeland for refugees from Holocaust
First War
750,000 Palestinians misplaced-still a controversy today

6. Fate of U.S. We become world power We have atomic bomb
1952 get Hydrogen bomb
Capitalist
Truman President until 1953
Dwight Eisenhower “Ike” President

7. Fate of Soviet Union Stalin dies 1953 Khrushchev becomes leader
Communist
Mad we did not tell them we had atomic bomb & feels they had to fight the eastern front without help (most causalities)
Does not keep promise from Yalta
Get atomic bomb 1949
Get Hydrogen bomb 1953

8. Welcome to the
Cold War!!!!

9. Fate of Germany Sectioned into 4 parts East Germany went to U.S.S.R
West to France, GB, U.S.A (We eventually combine to make West Germany)
Split capital of Berlin in Soviet zone as well

10. Berlin Airlift
First conflict of Cold War Soviets block supplies from coming into Berlin so they would gain complete control
June 1948-May1949
US & Britain airlift ~ 13,000 tons of supplies
Afterward became East Germany & West Germany

11. Berlin Wall 1961 Built in 1961 under J.F.K
Separated East from West Berlin
Fell in Nov. 1989
Symbol of the Cold War & Fall marks the beginning of the end of the Cold War

12. Berlin Wall
In 1960’s
Fall in 1989

13. Red Scare -Senator Joe McCarthy
Vows to rid of spread of communism because he “has a list of names” to get elected
HUAC-House Un-American Activities Committee-investigated suspected communist
Hollywood Ten-accused actors and actresses of spreading communism
McCarthyism
Impact: started a widespread fear of communism

14. Julius & Ethel Rosenberg
Accused of selling bomb secrets to Soviets
Tried & executed 1953
Ethel re-executed
Targeted because they were Russian immigrants (shows shift in discrimination)

15. NATO-North Atlantic Treaty Organization
United States
Canada
United Kingdom
France
Italy
Netherlands
Norway
Iceland
Denmark
Belgium
Luxemburg
Portugal
An agreement against an attack from the Soviet Union

16. Warsaw Pact Soviet Union Albania Czechoslovakia Hungary East Germany
Poland
Romania
Bulgaria

17. The Iron Curtain
Churchill states “An iron curtain has descended upon the Continent”

18. The Eastern Bloc
Satellite Nation: appears to be an independent nation but really is ruled by another.
Soviets had areas around them as satellite nations during the Cold War.

19. Yugoslavia Leader Josip Tito Split from Stalin 1948
Was an Ally in WWII so independent
Communist but not part of Stalin’s satellite nations
Yugoslavia divided in 1992 after ethnic wars

20. Communist China China became communist in 1949
Mao Zedong ( ) controversial leader
China is in transition today

21. The Space Race In 1957 Soviets launch Sputnik
First earth orbiting artificial satellite
Starts Space Race in Cold War
Changes US school curriculum

22. And so it begins…
Marshall Plan: U.S. aid European countries economically so they don’t fall to communism after WWII
Truman Doctrine: 1947 Truman fears Soviets will not live up to their agreements at Potsdam Conference and begins policy of containment
NSC-68: signed in 1950 by Truman quadrupled the amount spent on defense and stated ~20% GDP go to defense

23. It’s a Cold War with Hot Zones…
Conflicts will break out in:
-Korea
-Vietnam
-Latin America
-The Middle East
Why?
-Containment: US policy to stop the spread of Communism
-Domino Theory: fear that if one country falls to communism their neighbor will too
Communism

24. 99 Red balloons-1984